Apocalypse Or Racial Kumbaya? America After Nov. 8
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4.6 • 14.9K Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2016
⏱️ 30 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Over the course of this long election slog, we've heard from a lot of white people who |
| 0:09.3 | are really upset. |
| 0:10.8 | And Donald Trump's candidacy has given them a really powerful platform to voice all |
| 0:14.7 | of those intense feelings. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm afraid for the whole country. |
| 0:17.8 | I think we have a very big recession. |
| 0:20.8 | It's been a dark eight years and I mean a dark eight years. |
| 0:25.1 | We have a flood of immigrants come across the border, flood in our healthcare system, |
| 0:29.2 | flood in our education system, flood in our prisons. |
| 0:32.4 | You'll see a real downturn in the standard living you know, I know it's American. |
| 0:36.0 | I'm afraid for our kids, our grandkids and everything else, what's coming. |
| 0:40.1 | I've watched my country go from a place where I felt safe to a very unsafe world. |
| 0:47.1 | I don't feel safe anymore here. |
| 0:49.6 | All right, so on this episode of CODE, which what is going to happen to all that energy |
| 0:55.2 | after November 8th, which is of course only six days from now, it's kind of a moment |
| 0:59.1 | of truth for America. |
| 1:00.1 | I'm Jean Demby. |
| 1:01.1 | And I'm Shrine Marisol Mirage. |
| 1:03.5 | And Jean, we're freaked out, right? |
| 1:06.3 | By all this racist stuff we've been hearing for months now. |
| 1:08.7 | Can I speak for you? |
| 1:09.7 | You always do. |
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